On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:45:00 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:44 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> > wrote: >> I don't know Greek either, and I don't think there's any other language >> that uses the Greek alphabet. > > Assuming you don't count mathematics as a language.
There are a few languages which use the Greek alphabet, with variations. Coptic is the main one, although Greek and Coptic letters have their own Unicode symbols, in order to support works which need to distinguish them. Armenian and, of course, Cyrillic, are derived from the Greek alphabet; actually so is the Latin alphabet. Other languages that used, or use, the Greek alphabet include quite a few ancient languages, including Gaulish and Bactrian. Old Nubian in the Middle Ages used the Greek alphabet plus a few additional letters. A number of Slavic languages used the Greek alphabet, although now they use Cyrillic. Some Albanian dialects still use the Greek alphabet, as do a couple of Turkic languages from the Balkans. See the Wikipedia entry on the Greek alphabet for more. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
